Chris Bacon wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
But has anyone here done dowsing?

Why doesn't the rod point straight to your body given the amount of water
it contains?

"It knows".

I wonder whether dowsing can detect air filled cavities...

I think a better explanation is..."You know"...

You just don't know you know.

Almost all of the psychic and paranormal stuff I have read about over
the years is amenable to a single simple explanation..you actually know
a lot more about your environment than you are willing to have admitted
to your conscious mind..sometimes some of it dribbles in through the
cracks, in strange and symbolic ways. As visions, sounds, smells,
feelings of temperature and other strange feelings. Hypnotism reveals
memories that are entirely subconscious and the like.

If you are quite-minded, and practice a-rational observation, its
amazing what is going on in your senses that you certainly didn't put
there yourself..Of course, being entirely subjective, its very hard to
test it OBJECTIVELY.

Some of it can be squeezed into the current rational, materialist
framework..you smelt it, heard it, saw it, subliminally..but a LOT of
stuff that I personally can vouch for, has to be squeezed mighty
hard..knowing who is calling before you pick up the phone and so on..

As to why we don't use it...because its fragile, unreliable and needs a
state of mind that is not very conducive to survival in our modern
world..nevertheless remnants of it still linger in crystal gazing,
scrying, card reading, witch doctoring and other forms of self hypnosis
that do occasionally net results that are somewhat astonishing.

But its a lot easier to install CLI on the phone and have it come up
with a persons name isn't it? :-)

As far as RANDI goes, anyone who wants to win a prize, and demonstrate
his own veracity, is likely to be the worst possible candidate for being
able to do this stuff. High ego levels and paranormal experiences are
anathema.







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